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THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET<br/>
<span class=large>ISAIAH</span>
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CHAPTER 31
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Israel reproved for turning to Egypt for help—When the Lord comes he will defend and preserve his people.
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Woe</span> to them that go down to Egypt for <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/31/1a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Trust Not in the Arm of Flesh.">help</a>; and <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/31/1b" mark="b" type="E" title="OR rely; Ps. 20: 7.">stay</a> on <sup>c</sup><a href="isa/31/1c" mark="c" type="A" title="Isa. 30: 16; Hosea 14: 3 (1-3).">horses</a>, and trust in chariots, because <i>they are</i> many; and in horsemen, because they are very strong; but they look not unto the Holy One of Israel, neither seek the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>!
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Yet he also <i>is</i> wise, and will bring <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/31/2a" mark="a" type="D" title="IE calamity upon evildoers.">evil</a>, and will not <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/31/2b" mark="b" type="A" title="Num. 23: 19.">call</a> back his words: but will arise against the house of the evildoers, and against the help of them that work iniquity.
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Now the Egyptians <i>are</i> men, and not <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/31/3a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR gods.">God</a>; and their horses flesh, and not spirit.  When the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> shall stretch out his hand, both he that helpeth shall fall, and he that is <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/31/3b" mark="b" type="D" title="IE Both Egypt and they who trusted in Egypt shall fall.">holpen</a> shall fall down, and they all shall fail together.
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For thus hath the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> spoken unto me, Like as the <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/31/4a" mark="a" type="A" title="Hosea 11: 10; Amos 1: 2.">lion</a> and the young lion roaring on his prey, when a multitude of shepherds is called forth against him, <i>he</i> will not be afraid of their voice, nor abase himself for the noise of them: so shall the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> of hosts come down to <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/31/4b" mark="b" type="A" title="Isa. 42: 13.">fight</a> for mount Zion, and for the hill thereof.
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As birds <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/31/5a" mark="a" type="D" title="IE hovering over their young.">flying</a>, so will the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> of hosts <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/31/5b" mark="b" type="A" title="Hosea 1: 7.">defend</a> Jerusalem; defending also he will deliver <i>it; and</i> passing over he will preserve <i>it.</i>
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&#182; Turn ye unto <i>him from</i> whom the children of Israel have deeply revolted.
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For in that day every man shall cast away his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which your own hands have made unto you <i>for</i> a sin.
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&#182; Then shall the <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/31/8a" mark="a" type="A" title="Isa. 37: 36 (1-38).">Assyrian</a> fall with the <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/31/8b" mark="b" type="D" title="IE Assyria shall fall by destruction from God.">sword</a>, not of a mighty man; and the sword, not of a mean man, shall devour him: but he shall flee from the sword, and his young men shall be discomfited.
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And he shall pass over to his strong hold for fear, and his princes shall be afraid of the <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/31/9a" mark="a" type="A" title="D&C 45: 68 (68-71).">ensign</a>, saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, whose fire <i>is</i> in Zion, and his furnace in Jerusalem.
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